AN: Sorry I havn't uploaded in ages, I was distracted. To make up for it, this chapters longer. Also, this chapter has more of the gore I warned you all about. Yay gore....mwah hahahahaha....

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Limp, lifeless bodies hung from the trees surrounding the once clear pool. Their entails and various vital organs had been dragged from the still screaming victim's bodies and left to dangle, thick crimson blood running down them and dripping into the now red water below. The single living being stared up at the dismembered carcasses with a mix of wonder and revolution. And fear. He'd found her, there was no doubt in her mind. No one else could do something quite like this, killed so skilfully with obvious pleasure, knowing just how to scare the intended viewer shitless. "Monster." A statement, not a question. Sakura knew he was there, watching her and enjoying his victory.

"Cherry blossom." His voice sent a shiver down her spine, it was thick, masculine and held a sinister edge that always seemed present.

"Well? You've had your fun, get on with it." Sakura knew she had no chance, no matter how strong she was she would barely be able to match him if he were human, but he wasn't. He was something else entirely.

"I'm sure I have no idea what your talking about, dear. Would you care to elaborate?" Anyone could tell he was smirking from his hiding place in the shadows. Sakura snorted inelegantly.

"Save your breath, monster. Get on with it, kill me already." She closed her eyes.

"Kill you? But why on earth would I want to do that, have you committed some great crime against my village and wish to repent?" If you didn't know who or what he was it would be easy to mistake his confusion for reality. But Sakura didn't think of this. Her eyes snapped open, her breathing quickening.

"Your village? Your village?! You bastard! Konoha is not your village and never will be, never will the true survivors give in, never submit!" She was panting from her outburst and from anger, spinning round trying to pinpoint his position. Silence. Then laughter.

"You really, honestly believe that those little friends of yours are going to charge in and make everything how it once was? Ha!" Sakura could hear rustling from the undergrowth. Red eyes that seemed to glow leered out of the undergrowth directly in front of her, the laughter got louder, coming from behind her. She spun round, just in time to see blur of long ebony hair, pale skin and ruby eyes. The blur slammed into her and pinned her against a tree, turning her vision slightly fuzzy round the edges. It would seem that the monster's finally stopped playing, she thought with only slight regret.

"Caught you."

Sakura felt a sharp pain in her neck, then knew no more.

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AN: Well? Hope its OK, I've been working on some other stuff and school work, so yeah. I don't think its crap. Much. Feeling rather angsty (Will: What else is new? Me: SHUT THE HELL UP!!! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!), more so than usual due to my best friend blabbing things to the person I want to keep them a secret from. Not talking to her, and don't intend to. And I just broke my favourite lighter, my little fire lighting buddie! ='-[ *sigh* Must go practice boxing by hitting the wall….. Damn world…